3 boys, a handful of careers, lots and lots of pro bono work

I don’t blog about Thinker often enough, but this makes up for it:

Matt was encouraging our boys to continue to help rake our 40 billion leaves up before the snow falls. The littles ones were toddling around outside finding every single toy filled with water and making sure they sat on it or poured it on each other. Inside, I was changing the sheets on all the beds in order to drown in the wash the thing living inside us giving us sniffles and coughs. Also, I needed a break from all their noise.Trying to keep them outside and occupied a little longer, Matt was egging The Thinker on a bit, trying to increase his 8 year physical and emotional stamina for WORK. He said humorously,“Come on, rake some more! It will give you big shoulders – and you know who likes strong shoulders, right? girls.”To which, our Thinker responded, “Come on, dad, it’s at least three months until I’ll be trying to start attracting girls. It’s like my spelling test. It’s not til next Friday. It’s just not time to take that test yet.”

Matt relayed this to me after dinner as we sat there, having excused the kids to go play. His tale was met by my stunned, but appreciative, silence.